ABSTRACT
Temporalisation provides motivations for the framing of histories, and their participants, as falling into certain phases; history frames the passage of time by marking up certain events and processes for attention. Thus, attention to temporalisation and to history draws attention to ways of breaking up the otherwise even flow of a passage of time into certain phases or epochs; palaeolithic and neolithic, Greek and Roman, Christian and Moslem. This is the context for his reflections on time and history, and on the distinct play of forces in temporisation: the arrivals, delays, and de-synchronisations of time, and in temporalisation, the assigning of meaning to time, in the construction of historical frameworks. These discussions of time and temporisation, temporalisation and history also need to be placed back into the ongoing encounter with Husserl's phenomenology, starting in 1954. Which Derrida states in his thesis defence, Time of the Thesis; Punctuations, 1980, had never ceased to be important for him.
